Following on from Yoda spin-off rumours, Ewan McGregor has suggested that he would like to see Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Star Wars character who gets a standalone movie.

Disney last week announced that there would be a set of spin-off films revolving around individual Star Wars characters in addition to the already planned three sequels.

Yoda, Han Solo and Boba Fett’s name had all been thrown around as possible protagonists, but now Ewan McGregor has put his character Obi-Wan Kenobi in the mix.

‘I think it’s a good idea,’ McGregor told MTV News: ‘The only bit that I could get away with doing is after the last one I made, Episode III, before Alec Guinness, there’s that period where he’s in the desert.’

McGregor refers to the untold tale of how the Jedi survived on Tatooine before he meets up with Luke Skywalker in first Star Wars film, A New Hope.

‘That might be my window, there, to tell that story,’ he mused. ‘I don’t know what he did in the desert. We could make up some stuff. Could be quite exciting. I’d be up for it, for sure, of course!’

Star Trek actor William Shatner said this week that he thought Star Wars director JJ Abrams had ‘gone too far’ with the new movies.

‘He’s being a pig,’ he said. ‘He’s collecting the two franchises and holding them close to his vest.

‘He’s probably the most talented director of that ilk that we have, but he’s gone too far this time.’